Defining Diversity
There is much more diversity in my new environment in France. I grew up in a mainly Caucasian middle class town in the middle of America so I wasn’t exposed to much diversity growing up. But there is so much diversity here! There are students here from probably 20 or 30 different countries. I have met so many people from so many different countries. I have also never been a minority before in my life until coming to France. I think that Susannah mentioned in her blog that in some of her classes, she is the only American, and the same is true for me here. There are classes where I am one of maybe two or three American students. This has been a huge shock to me because this is the first time in my life that I have been that small of a minority.
For me diversity is any differences between a group of people. For the most part when I think of diversity in the US I think of skin color. But here in France I have learned that for the most part diversity is not in your skin color, it’s mostly in your ideas, morals, political thoughts, etc. It has made me realize how diverse everyone is and how diversity is a really good thing, because to have everyone have the same ideals and thoughts, would be just plain boring.